The Strange World Of… Shirley Collins
May 23, 2023 · It also features one of Collins’ last recordings before her decades-long absence from live performance (‘Hand On Heart’, recorded in 1980 at the Sydney Opera House), after which she suffered dysphonia for many years, brought about by the traumatic breakdown of her marriage with folk musician Ashley Hutchings.
"Embrace It Or Fuck Off" - Robert Plant Interviewed - The Quietus
Nov 20, 2014 · Partly inspired by his break up with singer Patti Griffin and his increasing isolation in Texas, the album is a superb melting pot of influences that takes in West Coast psychedelia, North African music, loops, electronics, folk and country without it ever sounding like a cut and paste Frankenstein monster.
Track-by-Track - The Quietus
Track-by-Track The Power Of Doubt: Liars’ Guide To New LP WIXIW After all those weird and abstract hints on the Amateur Gore tumblr, here's the information from the horse's mouth: Angus Andrew tells Luke Turner about the themes and making of new album WIXIW, their increasing use of electronics, and relationship with producer Daniel Miller
25 Years On: Prince Of Darkness Revisited - The Quietus
Nov 28, 2012 · Released in 1987, Prince of Darkness is the second part of what director John Carpenter has dubbed his ‘Apocalypse Trilogy’, which begins with The Thing (1982) and ends with In the Mouth of Madness (1995). Though the three films are different stories and not directly connected, they all deal with a threat that could destroy humanity if allowed to go unchecked.
What’s In A Name? Chino Moreno Of Deftones Interviewed
Sep 29, 2020 · Formed in Sacramento, California in the late 80s, they eventually became an exquisitely balanced thing by the release of their second album Around The Fur in 1997. Today, singer Chino Moreno, more than anyone is responsible for the relatively complex emotional bent of this music, but he finds his necessary counterweight in the thunderous riff-smithery of Stephen Carpenter; and in the expansive ...
My Name Is Prince: On Race, Identity & The End Of The Love Symbol
May 2020 marks two decades since Prince reclaimed his real name after living as a symbol for seven years. “You’re different,” remarked Larry King, interviewing Prince about his name change, in 1999. “Compared to what?” Prince shot back, with velvety quietness. Building on the slippery campness of Little Richard and the studied self-play of Bowie, […]
A Long Way From Accrington: Jon Anderson Of Yes Interviewed
Aug 3, 2020 · All portraits by Deborah Anderson By any standards, Jon Anderson’s album 1000 Hands has been a long time in coming. The former Yes singer actually started work on this record 30 years ago with Brian Chatton, a long-time friend from his 60s group The Warriors. Anderson had contacted Chatton asking him to send a few […]
Making Good Their Escape: Black Country New Road Interviewed
Dec 4, 2019 · Within months, and with barely any fanfare, a new group with a similar line up was gigging hard around London and the South East. Browne was gone and former guitarist Isaac Wood was now the frontman, they’d lost Johnny Pyke, one of the drummers, but kept Charlie Wayne behind the kit.
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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks V – How a Single Radio Show Shaped Odesa’s Music Scene. In the latest instalment of our collaboration with Kyiv’s 20ft Radio we hear tales of taxi drivers horrified by music, “Baroque pop”, paying tribute to Twiggy Pop, and ask what is an Independent label, in Ukraine. The fifth Memory Leaks episode is a trip to the south of Ukraine in the 2000s and ...
Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed
Apr 11, 2017 · Thanks to the band’s run of magnificent social vignettes throughout the 1960s, Ray Davies of The Kinks became known not simply as a fine songwriter, but a fine British songwriter. While The Beatles and The Rolling Stones achieved transatlantic megastardom, as a writer Davies was forced to look inward after being banned from entering the country between 1965 to 1969, following a dispute with ...